The Portland daily press., 1887-01-18


OOO,OO0) was taken up and passed with only
few 1mmaterial amendments.
The army appropriation bill was also taken
up and passed with few unimportant
amendments.
The Senate bill to establish agricultural
experiment stations in connection with agri-
cultural colleges was taken up as un finished
business.
Messrs. ingalls, and vest-ssposed, and
Butler supported the measure.
Without action on the bill or ON any Of the
pending amendments, the Senate. at $40
O'Clock, adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House refused to take up the confer
ence report on the interstate commerce bill
rules.
On motion Of Mr.. Rice of Massachusetts,
the Senate bill was passed for the erection
OF public building at Worcester, Mass, at
an ultimate cost Of $25,0O0.
Under the call of States a bill was intro
duced by Mr. Dingley Of Maine, and referred
to amend the shipping act Of 1885 so as to
more clearly define the conditions under
which the President may suspend collection
OF the tonnage tax.
Mr.. Matson of Indiana, on behalf of the
committee on invalid pensions moved to sus-
pend the rules and pass the bill for the relief
Of dependent parents and honorably dis
charged soldiers and sailors now disabled
and dependentupon their own labor for sup
port.
Mr.. Warner Of Ohio, criticised the bill as
pauper bill, rather than pension bill
The blu was passed; yeas, 179; nays, 76
1t provides that in considering pension
claims OF dependent parents the fact and
cause of death, and the fact that the soldier
left no widow or minor children having been
shown as required by law 1t shall be neces-
sary to show snch parents are without other
means OF support than their own manual
labor or contributions of others net legally
bound for their support, provided no pension
allowed under this act shall commence prior
to its passage. Allpersons who served three
months or more in the military or naval SER
vice OF the United States, or in any war in
which the United has been engaged,an who
have been honorably discharged therefrom,
and who are now, or who may hereafter be
suffering from mental or physical disability,
not the result Of their own vicious habits or
gross carelessness, which incapaci tates them
for the performance of labor in such degree
as TO render them unable to earn support,
and who are dependent upon daily labor for
support shall, upon making due proof of the
fact according to such rules and regulgtiOns
as the Secretary of the Interior may provide
In pursuance Of this act be placed on the
list OF invalid pensioners of the United
States and be entitled TO receive for such
total inability to procure their subsistence
by daily labor S12 per month, and such PEN
sion shall commence from the date of the
filing of application in the pension Office
upon proof that disability then existed and
continued during the existence of the same
degree herein'proyided. This act shall not
apply to persons under political disabilities,
or u any person whose disability was in
eurred while engaged In military service
against the United States.
Mr.. Eldridge, Of Michigan, ON behalf of
the committee on pensions moved that the
rules be suspended the House concur, in the
Senate amendment to the Mexican pensiOn
bill.
Mr.. Bragg, of Wisconsin, opposed the
bill because it proposed service pension. He
gave his reasons for voting against the bill
which the House had just passed which he
thought should be entitled bill ''To pension
the rubbish Of the army Of the United
States, and to revive the business Of claim
agents IN Washington. 1t covered every
substitute, every bounty jvnper, and every
sealawag that went into the army"
The motion to suspend the rules and con-
IN the Senate amendment was agreed to,
yeas, 243; nays, 8.
The bill now requires only Presidential
approval to become law.
IL provides that pension Of $8 month
shall be paid to all surviving officers and en-
listed men, including marines, militia and
volunteers Of the military and naval services
of the United States, which being duly en-
listed actually served go days with the army
or navy of the United States in Mexico or on
coasts or frontier thereof, or en- route
thereto in the war with that ma
tlon, or were actually engaged in
battle in the said war, and were honorably
discharged, and to such other officers and
soldiers and sailors as may have been per-
sonally named in any resolution Of Congress
for any specific service in said war, and the
surviving widow Of such officer and enlisted
man, provided that such widow shall have
not remarked, provided every such officer,
enlisted men or widow who is or may become
62 years Of age, and who is or may become
subjectto any disability or dependency equiv
alent to some cause prescribed or recognized
by the pension laws Of the United States, as
sufficient reason for allowance of pension
shall be entitled to the benefit of this act;
but it shall not be held to include any person
not within the rule of age or disability or de-
pendency herein defined, or who incurred
such disability or dependency herein defined,
or who incurred such disability while in any
manner voluntarily engaged in or aiding or
abetting the late rebellion against the au-
thOrity of the United States.
Section 1716 of the Revised Statutes is re-
pealed so far as it relates TO this act, or to
pensioners under this act
Mr.. Springer, of Illinois, on behalf of the
committee on claims, moved to suspend the
rules and pass with amendments the Senate
bill supplemental TO the Banman act, for in
vestigation Of claims against the govern
ment.
Pending action, the House at 4.S5 O'Clock
adjourned